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Originally Posted by brian_wilbanks
.I think you're oversimplifying that a wee bit. Humans didnt turn it into a desert. The middle east has been a desert for thousands of years.
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No, we did it. Human beings. It took a few centuries and it was thousands of years ago, but that's the work of the apeman.
More trees in neighborhoods, more structures to serve as habitate for wildlife within populated areas [these all being native to the neighborhood's location] and overall city planning that's both pedestrian/bicycle friendly [thus reducing the fuel usage and risk to said wildlife. Hell, I picture skyscrapers side by side with redwoods in California and just as much forestry amid other major cities, so much so that without being a hundred feet up you'd not know the difference.
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BTW, that figure of 100K cattle per day came from a slaughterhouse in Salina Kansas that I worked near once. I have no idea what the number is for the entire globe.
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Oh, I'm sure the number's reasonably accurate, but that's not my point at all. It's the means of raising animals for food and which animals we used based on our geography. Sure bison don't take shit the way domestic cattle do, but if people five hundred years ago could work around that without the use of steel what the fuck's stopping us?